* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

* 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, African-German hockey player

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer

* 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.

* 1970 – Sylvain Bouchard, Canadian speed skater

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer

* 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player

* 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer

* 1970 – Tony Kanal, English-American bass player, songwriter, and producer ( No Doubt )

* 1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer

* 1970 – Park Myeong-su, South Korean comedian and singer

* 1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist

* 1970 – Rod Brind ' Amour, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1970 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

Garth Ennis ( born 16 January 1970 ) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics ' Punisher franchise.

* Garth Porter – keyboards, clavinet, piano, lead vocals, backing vocals, Hammond organ, electric piano, synthesiser ( 1970 – 1984, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2011 )

* Garth Ennis, comic writer ( born 16 January 1970 )

Garth was born around 1970.

Ihnat guest-starred in several television series during the 1960s and is best known by Star Trek fans as Garth of Izar from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " Whom Gods Destroy " The Fugitive episode " Cry Uncle " " The Walls of Night " Ihnat held over seventy guest star credits in such well known series as Gunsmoke (" Exodus 21: 22 ", " Jenny " with Lisa Gerritsen ( December 28, 1970 ), and " Noose of Gold "), Bonanza (" A Dream to Dream " and " Terror at 2: 00 "), The Virginian (" Jed " and " Last Grave at Socorro Creek "), Mission: Impossible (" The Mind of Stefan Miklos "), Cimarron Strip (" The Hunted "), I Dream of Jeannie (" My Master the Rainmaker "), Mannix (" End Game " and " To Catch the Lightning "), The F. B. I.

* 1970 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor ( b. 1896 )

* 1970 – Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and actor ( The Frames and The Swell Season )

* 1896 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor ( d. 1970 )

The " Troubles " in Northern Ireland ( 1970 – 1998 ) were becoming a security concern for the Irish Government at the time, and in 1972 a Temporary Custody Order ( S. I.

* 1970 – Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer

* 1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor ( d. 2002 )

* 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish musician ( The Corrs )

* 1970 – Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician ( The Divine Comedy )

* 1970 – Dean Kiely, Irish footballer

* 16-Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970.

* 1970 – Andy Ward, Irish rugby player

The legendary Irish folk singer, Christy Moore, was also strongly influenced by Woody in his seminal 1970 album Prosperous, giving renditions of " The Ludlow Massacre " and Bob Dylan's " Song to Woody ".

* December 3 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor ( b. 1970 )

* Irish — Dillon, Gerard: Many works, including Bird and Bird Canvas ( c. 1958 ), And the Time Passes ( 1962 ), The Brothers ( 1967 ), Beginnings ( 1968 ), Encounter ( c. 1968 ), Red Nude with Loving Pierrot ( c. 1970 ); Robinson, Markey: Many works.

He has also appeared in Seán O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and fulfilled a lifetime ambition when taking to the stage of the Irish capital's Abbey Theatre in 1970 to perform in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Donal McCann.

** Michael Sheridan ( Irish politician ) ( died 1970 ), Irish Fianna Fáil politician

He won decisively from Decies, a colt who went on to win the Irish 2000 Guineas in 1970.

In March 2005, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that the government of Ireland would begin listing only the Irish language versions of place names in the Gaeltachtaí as the official names, stripping the official Ordnance Survey of their English equivalents, to bring them up to date with roadsigns in the Gaeltacht, which have been in Irish only since 1970.

Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn ( 28 May 1970 – 3 December 2002 ) was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999 – 2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Reynolds became interested in politics at the time of the Arms Crisis in 1970, a hugely controversial episode in modern Irish history which saw two Cabinet ministers, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, sacked from the government over an alleged attempt to import arms to Northern Ireland.

In 1970, the Irish national newspaper TV critics honoured Clark with a Jacob's Award for Civilisation.